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IBM Server Group Reduces Manufacturing Errors and Improves Client Satisfaction With a Web Services Solution | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| IBM Server Group, the world's leading server vendor, works with thousands of IBM Business Partners to sell servers and related software and peripherals around the globe. The challenge was to tackle server configuration errors - caused by an underutilized order validation process - which took days or weeks to be discovered and corrected by sales, fulfillment or manufacturing systems and staff. The solution to this was a Web service that allows distributors to integrate a more automated server validation tool into their existing systems.
Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Regional Healthcare Payer Empowers Providers With New Self-Service Tools Using IBM's Composite Business Services Platform | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| IBM is helping to transform provider services for a regional leader in healthcare financing. The healthcare payer employs approximately 4,300 people and provides insurance products and services to more than two million members. The challenge was to give healthcare providers highly personalized self-service tools to automate claims processing and error correction to increase provider satisfaction and reduce costs for both payer and provider. This was solved by delivering self-service tools and differentiated services from existing legacy IT systems using configurable business services that leverage Web service and industry standards.
Tags: HIPAA, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Shanxi Mobile Communications Company Boosts Customer Service Levels With a Service-Oriented Architecture Built on IBM Websphere Software | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| A subsidiary of the China Mobile Communications Company, Shanxi Mobile Communications Company (Shanxi Mobile) offers wireless communication services to more than eight million subscribers. The company was looking for a new application framework that would offer improved flexibility and advanced integration capabilities. To enable secured access to the new infrastructure, Shanxi Mobile deployed IBM Tivoli Identity Manager, Version 5.2 and IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business, Version 5.2 software.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Driving Real-Time Success | 0000-00-00 | Sonic Software |
| DaimlerChrysler Services Fleet Management (DCS Fleet) partners could not effectively exchange information with the company because of inconsistent data formats and lag times. DCS Fleet decided to use a two-pronged IT strategy to enhance operations and customer service: eBusiness and infrastructure. Starting with the office in France, DCS Fleet used Sonic to rebuild its information-management engine. First, SonicMQ enterprise message server was deployed to help ensure the reliable exchange of mission-critical information. Then, Sonic ESB was used to create "The nerve-center" of the system, establishing flexible XML standardization of data exchanges.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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EBS Building Society Gains Competitive Edge With New Channel | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| For institutions such as Dublin-based EBS Building Society (EBS), providing mortgage loans are more than a lucrative business, it changes lives. EBS wanted to add a new distribution channel for selling mortgage loans by using information technology to deliver a more compelling offering to brokers. This was solved by new online channel for reaching broker community that enables brokers to connect seamlessly with EBS from within their own companies online business systems. EBS prepared an infrastructure for this innovation, which would connect the company directly to brokers' in-house systems, by previously laying the groundwork for service orientation using IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment and IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere.
Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture, Application Development |
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Property and Casualty Insurer Delivers Outstanding Support to Agents With an Industry-Focused, Composite Business Services Platform From IBM | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| IBM is helping to improve partner relationships for a premier property and casualty insurance company providing personal, commercial, marine, agribusiness, and excess and surplus insurance products across the United States. IBM wanted to deliver outstanding service and support to independent agents and brokers by providing a range of services across core business functions including new business acquisition and policy management while reducing manual touch points and operating costs. The solution was achieved by delivering highly personalized services to agents with a flexible business and IT alignment solution created specifically for the insurance industry that uses Web services and Association for Corporate Operations Research and Development (ACORD) standards in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Tags: Service-Oriented Architecture |
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To Stay Ahead of the Competition, RouteOne Develops a Strong Service-Oriented Architecture Using IBM WebSphere Software | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| With the vision of becoming the credit application management system of choice for auto dealers, RouteOne was looking to upgrade its application platform to an open-standards based architecture so that it could support more users and integrate with diverse partners. In addition, the company wanted to differentiate its system within the automotive marketplace by implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and leveraging Web services to build a more flexible system that could respond quickly to users' changing needs. RouteOne built a robust SOA for its credit application management system using IBM WebSphere and IBM DataPower software. The company deployed IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 5.1 software as the primary application platform for the environment.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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Nationwide Gains a "360-Degree" View of the Customer to Advance Its "On Your Side" Promise | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| Based in Columbus, Ohio, Nationwide is one of the largest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the world, with more than US$158 billion in assets. The core challenge faced by company was a unified, "360-degree" view of its customer relationships. The company's vision of making processes more customer-centric ran into the prevalent reality in insurance today - product-centric, independent information systems. The company needed an efficient and flexible way to overcome this barrier. With the help of IBM, Nationwide broke through this barrier by creating an advanced integration hub that joined customer information from all its lines of business. With this as a foundation, Nationwide is now able to transform its customer-facing processes and provide a more holistic experience.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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IBM Intranet Fine Tuned for Increased Capacity | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| The IBM intranet - the IBM On Demand Workplace - serves the information needs of its employees both on IBM premises and working remotely. The On Demand Workplace integrates information sources enterprise wide, enabling employees to respond with speed to any customer demand, market opportunity or external threat. Although successful in terms of aggregating a wide range of business-critical information services IBM realized that the existing structure of the portal was not going to continue to meet the growing information needs of its employees. By implementing a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), however, the problem could be solved. IBM WebSphere XD enables applications to get more value out of legacy resources without requiring additional computing power.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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TransFonD Brings Romania's National Banking System Into the Electronic Era With IBM Infrastructure Solution | 0000-00-00 | IBM |
| TransFonD S.A. (TransFonD) - a private company owned by 27 Romanian banks and the National Bank of Romania - is a Romanian organization. To compete in the European Union, Romania needed to upgrade its banking IT infrastructure and implement an electronic interbank payment solution. The solution to this was a scalable, flexible, service oriented architecture and messaging software from IBM that integrates interbank electronic payment system with core back-end processing applications and data of its member banks, processing up to 300,000 transactions per day in automatic clearing house application alone.
Tags: Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture |
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